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Posted: 6/16/2024 11:49:54 PM EDT
I’ve never had a USP. There’s some new OD green USP tacticals available. What do I need to know about owning a USP?
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Epic guns that are better than anything else. Owning one will make you better than anyone else you know.
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Quoted: Where are they available at? View Quote https://www.rooftopdefense.com/product/heckler-koch-hk-usp-9-tactical-v3-4-86-pistol-od-green-frame-1-of-500/ ETA: I'd buy one if they have optic cut and light rail. It's 2024 and we still cant get what we want |
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Quoted: I’ve never had a USP. There’s some new OD green USP tacticals available. What do I need to know about owning a USP? View Quote We will no longer consider you to be poor. |
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Easily one of the best handguns ever made. I just wish they updated it with a rail and optic cut.
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No optics ready option and only a couple of places offer aftermarket cuts.
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[#10]
The USP was a good gun in the context of its time, but it hasn't aged well like the 1911 has. Only buy one if you think they are cool. There are many better options to shoot 9mm suppressed out of a pistol.
I still kind of want to get another USP 45 Tactical (I used to have one and sold it before I got a .45 suppressor), but the grip sucks, the Tactical trigger is only OK, and it's expensive. After shooting my M&P with an Apex trigger for so long and trying a USP 45 again, I was extremely underwhelmed. I'm sorry but the USP these days is an overrated gun on the Internet, so only buy one of you are looking to add some variety to your safe. |
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[#11]
I gained 3” of dick length and now I look down on everyone else.
They are good guns. Check out my thread going over some of the pros and cons HERE. It’s my favorite service sized pistol now. Attached File (And the jet funnel and the mags for it are much cheaper now. I paid $45 for my jet funnel and $50 per mag, versus $45 for the standard 15 round mags.) |
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Quoted: What do I need to know about owning a USP? View Quote They are the Three Wolf Shirt of handguns. |
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Quoted: They are the Three Wolf Shirt of handguns. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: What do I need to know about owning a USP? They are the Three Wolf Shirt of handguns. Attached File |
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Quoted: No optics ready option and only a couple of places offer aftermarket cuts. Doesn't come with a thread protector. Proprietary accessory rail so you need an adapter to mount anything modern. The grip is pretty big where your second finger and thumb wrap around, so it may not be the best grip depending on your hand size. The 18-round mags that work with the Jet Funnel are expensive (the Jet Funnel comes standard on the Tactical, but can be removed if you want to use standard 15-rounders). The regular double action pull is on the heavy side. There are a ton of fire control options, including the 'light LEM' which a lot of people like (it's double-action only but, although the trigger travel is long like conventional double-action, the break weight is closer to single action). You get to join the paddle mag release master race if you haven't already. It's cool as hell, will never fail, and the pyramid grip texture is the best there is. It's a gateway drug to the Mark 23 and The Quest For The KAC Suppressor. View Quote My recent purchase from Rooftop of a new USP 9 Tactical had a thread protector included. The jet funnel is an entirely different option, and is not part of the standard package. You'd have to buy the separate jet funnel unit and compatible 18-round mags if you want to run it with that setup. |
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[#17]
They are super reliable and accurate, they are also kinda sort big lol.
Put an optic and gimmie the SAO plate and I would buy one in 9mm. Quoted: Worst trigger in a da/sa gun I’ve ever owned. View Quote My HK45C easily rivaled any pistol for the worst da/sa trigger ever. I couldn’t get rid of the thing fast enough. |
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[#18]
USPs are awesome. I love my .45
They cut a lot of corners in their modernization (P30 and HK45) |
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[#19]
Dated design
Non-standard rail Mag capacity acceptable Non-RMR/RDS capability Utterly reliable Accurate Great combat secondary sidearm 18Z50 |
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[#20]
Quoted: I’ve never had a USP. There’s some new OD green USP tacticals available. What do I need to know about owning a USP? View Quote They aren’t as cool once you own them and you wonder why you had to have it. |
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Quoted: https://www.rooftopdefense.com/product/heckler-koch-hk-usp-9-tactical-v3-4-86-pistol-od-green-frame-1-of-500/ ETA: I'd buy one if they have optic cut and light rail. It's 2024 and we still cant get what we want View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Where are they available at? https://www.rooftopdefense.com/product/heckler-koch-hk-usp-9-tactical-v3-4-86-pistol-od-green-frame-1-of-500/ ETA: I'd buy one if they have optic cut and light rail. It's 2024 and we still cant get what we want Get a LTT P30 or VP9 OR, or get your slide milled and a light adapter. The USP/Mk23 is for old school people. If you are buying one, it’s more for collection/nostalgia than getting the latest and greatest. Especially considering this is a limited edition run. |
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Quoted: https://www.rooftopdefense.com/product/heckler-koch-hk-usp-9-tactical-v3-4-86-pistol-od-green-frame-1-of-500/ ETA: I'd buy one if they have optic cut and light rail. It's 2024 and we still cant get what we want View Quote Great gun but ill buy a cz tactical before I spend $1500 |
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Quoted: https://www.rooftopdefense.com/product/heckler-koch-hk-usp-9-tactical-v3-4-86-pistol-od-green-frame-1-of-500/ ETA: I'd buy one if they have optic cut and light rail. It's 2024 and we still cant get what we want View Quote Because you suck and they hate you. They hate me too, I have 5. |
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[#26]
I need to pick one of those up, eventually, because I bet it would be nice.
The only HK I have is in .45 ACP and I really like it. |
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[#27]
I put 100k through one. It’s a good gun
I have since moved on but that pistol is still in my safe |
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[#28]
They are good guns, but I got plenty of pistols. As a late adopter to the red dot pistol world, I wouldnt buy any new 9mm without an optic cut.
For the price of a usp tactical I can pretty much have my choice of any other polymer 9mm, a red dot, holster, and case of ammo for the same price. |
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[#30]
Quoted: That they are awesome! View Quote FPNI. I think the trigger in mine is excellent. Agreed that a USP+ would be nice with an optic ready slide and perhaps picatinny rail but they’re fantastic suppressor hosts as-is and the P8 translucent magazines are epic if you can source them still. I’m not a fan of the OD two tone but that’s just personal preference. My advice is FO! |
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[#32]
If you plan to have the slide cut for an RDS, check with your preferred machining outfit BEFORE buying the pistol.
Certain USP models that come from the factory with adjustable target sights have a dovetail that is NOT compatible with RDS cuts. |
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[#35]
Extremely meh guns to shoot.
Also, they're simultaneously cool AF. |
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[#36]
I just have a 9 SD, so technically still a poor. Hands down I shoot it better than any other auto. Because it's not a tactical I'm sending it off for an optics cut, probably the Wright armory I-dot.
KT Mech for holsters, Lanbos for mags under $39. Do it!! I thought it would spread a holier than thou sickness in me but I also just picked up a 45C that I've been pretty meh about since. |
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[#37]
Mine hates me
when she's talking, she sounds like Heidi Klum in a snit I am so totally not worthy of her But she makes me shoot with the speed and accuracy of an android...and she never, EVAR misses or jams I'm a sexual tyrannosaurus when she's in my hands |
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Quoted: This. I sold mine shortly after I bought it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Worst trigger in a da/sa gun I’ve ever owned. This. I sold mine shortly after I bought it. Are you talking specifically about the Tactical model? Because it has a different trigger than the other USPs… @edcarPT @Keekleberrys |
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[#39]
Quoted: Are you talking specifically about the Tactical model? Because it has a different trigger than the other USPs @edcarPT @Keekleberrys View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Worst trigger in a da/sa gun I've ever owned. This. I sold mine shortly after I bought it. Are you talking specifically about the Tactical model? Because it has a different trigger than the other USPs @edcarPT @Keekleberrys |
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Quoted: They are the Three Wolf Shirt of handguns. View Quote Nah that's the desert eagle in any caliber (but definitely the .50). The USP is a bit big for what it is, the tactical isn't a giant improvement over the 'base' USP for the cost. Get the USP45c if you want a good .45 from HK that you can easily carry that retains the accuracy and reliability. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Epic guns that are better than anything else. Owning one will make you better than anyone else you know. Especially if it's in 40 My USP T in .40 is fantastic. 180 gr .40 is naturally subsonic too. My only complaint is that the suppressor sights should be higher. An AAC Tirant .45 will be at sight level. Workable, but barely. |
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[#42]
I had a regular full size USP 9 a while back, non tactical model.
I ended up trading it for my first glock 17 in like 2009 I believe. It shot good and was accurate. I just got tired of paying $40-50 for all plastic mags. i'm left handed and I couldnt find an ambi safety for it couldnt ever find a holster that would fit it with a TLR1 either If mags were cheaper and I could get an ambi safety and left handed holster for it I would buy another. |
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[#43]
Quoted: They aren’t as cool once you own them and you wonder why you had to have it. View Quote This. Owned one since 2015. It was great when nothing else was threaded from the factory, but now when everything available comes threaded, railed, and optics cut, it's obsolete. It's also not as nice to shoot as most modern striker fired pistols. Accurate as fuck, though. |
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[#45]
They need to update the USP to be optic cut and pic rail. Beretta did it with the 92 and it's selling pretty well.
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[#46]
If I had to start all over again, I would have gone USP. Would not have bought the Glocks, Sigs and Colts. The issue now is have so much invested in my collection, I cannot go back and start over
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Quoted: They aren’t as cool once you own them and you wonder why you had to have it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I’ve never had a USP. There’s some new OD green USP tacticals available. What do I need to know about owning a USP? They aren’t as cool once you own them and you wonder why you had to have it. Accurate, but they are a quality pistol. |
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[#49]
Attached File
Poor man's Tactical, standard 9 with the suppressor sights, factory threaded barrel, and the tactical recoil assembly (supposedly different) The modern HK Tactical. Not quite as good but optic ready. Attached File |
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[#50]
Honestly, I have a USP Expert, and I don't think it's all that.
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